Any advice on scanning docs with an IOS device? The built-in mail app, which Mom uses, seems to automagically destroy ... rescale ... images captured with the internal camera. "Hey, here's a handy thumbnail of that doc!" There are a few scanner apps that generate PDFs. But she doesn't do this often enough to make learning a new app very feasible, unless it's super simple.
Is there a way to tell the built-in app not to muck with the picture?
This is all because airprint isn't a two way app. Who woulda thunk that a tablet computer would need to be a computer?
I figured it out. The email header region of the screen shows the file size. By holding my finger over this, a list of resolutions and file sizes, including "actual", becomes available. This is simple enough for the user in question.
The main thing is making sure everything she needs to do can be done on an iPad. On a PC she's a magnet for toolbars, viruses, malware and every other malady. The walled-garden nature of iOS, which is otherwise annoying as hell, provides a degree of protection.
Mail on iPhone and Mail on iPad are iDifferent in behavior. Neat.
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Any advice on scanning docs with an IOS device? The built-in mail app, which Mom uses, seems to automagically destroy ... rescale ... images captured with the internal camera. "Hey, here's a handy thumbnail of that doc!" There are a few scanner apps that generate PDFs. But she doesn't do this often enough to make learning a new app very feasible, unless it's super simple.
Is there a way to tell the built-in app not to muck with the picture?
This is all because airprint isn't a two way app. Who woulda thunk that a tablet computer would need to be a computer?
- mark 3-25-2015 5:21 pm
I figured it out. The email header region of the screen shows the file size. By holding my finger over this, a list of resolutions and file sizes, including "actual", becomes available. This is simple enough for the user in question.
- mark 3-25-2015 5:37 pm [add a comment]
The main thing is making sure everything she needs to do can be done on an iPad. On a PC she's a magnet for toolbars, viruses, malware and every other malady. The walled-garden nature of iOS, which is otherwise annoying as hell, provides a degree of protection.
- mark 3-25-2015 5:43 pm [add a comment]
Mail on iPhone and Mail on iPad are iDifferent in behavior. Neat.
- mark 3-25-2015 7:29 pm [add a comment]